U-Pick Farms near Bangor, MI

Hartford

Sill Brothers runs u-pick tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, and eggplant on 68th Street outside South Haven, with pre-picked vegetables available too if you'd rather skip the fieldwork. Tomato varieties include Celebrity, Fabulous, Roma, and both cherry and grape types. It's a straightforward vegetable operation in Allegan County's fruit belt, with no frills beyond what's growing and what's ripe that week.

Coloma

Coloma

Fruit Acres Farms has grown fruit in Coloma since 1846. The farm market sells black sweet cherries, sour cherries, peaches, and apples, with sweet corn rounding out the summer stand. U-pick season covers cherries, peaches, and apples with no ladders required, plus a free picnic area and playground for families who make a day of it.

Crane Orchards has been farmed by the same family since the 1880s, now on its sixth generation, growing more than twenty apple varieties alongside ten kinds of peaches and cherries outside Fennville. The u-pick rows run through a corn maze in the fall, and the orchard operates separately from Crane's Pie Pantry next door, a distinct business under the same family name.

Dowagiac

PYO Blueberries runs a pick-your-own blueberry patch in Dowagiac, on the southwest Michigan fruit belt that produces a large share of the state's blueberry crop. As the name states, bring your own containers — Michigan's blueberry harvest typically runs July into August.

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